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The new law might abridge our freedom of expression. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
One could argue that such restrictions "abridge" the freedom of the press, but that argument would be specious. From Wordnik.com. [Right on the Left Coast: Views From a Conservative Teacher] Reference
Constitution that Congress can't begin to 'abridge' it, in its pride of place, is hawked at by this crested jay-bird. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Whittier] Reference
Sisters who spin and abridge the thread of human life. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4] Reference
So, I have seen fit to abridge it, and tell it in my own. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls on Waters Blue Or the Strange Cruise of the Tartar] Reference
Jason, of Cyrene, we have attempted to abridge in one book. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete] Reference
The sale lasted forty-two days, -- we abridge the story from. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858] Reference
We must not abridge the liberties of: the press or the people!. From Wordnik.com. [The Lincoln Story Book] Reference
The novelist, like every other artist, must abridge and select. From Wordnik.com. [An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times] Reference
State shall abridge the rights of any person born within the United. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
Cornwell refused to abridge his letter and instead released it to the press. From Wordnik.com. [When Harry Met Willie] Reference
Civil society does not abridge our natural rights, but secures and protects them. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
Would this have tended to swell the gospel into a vast library, or to abridge its teachings?. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
States any power to deny or abridge the right of any citizen to exercise the elective franchise. From Wordnik.com. [An Account of the Proceedings on the Trial of Susan B. Anthony, on the Charge of Illegal Voting] Reference
Could it abridge freedom of speech, and permit cruel and unusual punishments, or establish slavery?. From Wordnik.com. [The United States Since the Civil War] Reference
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
The individual, of course, cannot be following up his separate grievances with people who abridge his rights. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867.] Reference
I would not abridge the curriculum for any child; it should simply be taught that for which it has a capacity. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Jones' Picnic] Reference
This fragment is, perhaps, rather too long; but I think your readers will consider it too beautiful to abridge. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 65, January 25, 1851] Reference
From this it might be understood in what light she would view an attempt to abridge one of her favorite prerogatives. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference
And all such things as have been comprised in five books by Jason, of Cyrene, we have attempted to abridge in one book. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 46: 2 Machabees The Challoner Revision] Reference
Amendment which forbids the states to abridge, on account of color, the rights of citizens of the United States to vote. From Wordnik.com. [The United States Since the Civil War] Reference
Briefly summed up, they are as follows -- his own words are used except when it becomes necessary to abridge a lengthened argument. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2 Who Began the War, and Why?] Reference
If, from lack of time or from the necessity of conforming to a prescribed course of study, it is found desirable to abridge these. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
Herodotus speaks plainly and tells a story; and the best of all his stories, to our thinking, is a thief's story, which we abridge thus. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860] Reference
Augustus Theodore, too grateful for the facilities afforded him, showed no disposition to abridge his pleasures, or to hasten his return. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844] Reference
Anxious to abridge the evils from which a state of war can not be exempt, I lost no time after it was declared in conveying to the British. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
Catching an idea, Mr. NYE objected to the bill which some wretch had introduced, to abridge the privileges of Senators under the Franking laws. From Wordnik.com. [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 14, July 2, 1870] Reference
For these reasons it was necessary to methodize the whole work; to abridge some parts of it; and to leave out many things that appear to be trifling. From Wordnik.com. [History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing] Reference
By interpretation is either a comforter, or an aduocate: and therfore to translate it by any one of them only, is perhaps to abridge the sense of this place. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete] Reference
By its terms the United States and the states are forbidden to abridge the right of citizens to vote on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude. From Wordnik.com. [The United States Since the Civil War] Reference
Amendment was designed to remedy such a condition by forbidding the states to abridge the privileges of citizens, or to deprive persons of life, liberty or property. From Wordnik.com. [The United States Since the Civil War] Reference
Chronicle discerned in the note "an entire absence of the belligerent spirit," it found that "Germany is asking us to abridge certain of our rights on the high seas.". From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915] Reference
If the pupils lack maturity, or if it is found necessary to abridge this work in order to conform to a prescribed course of study, the six following Lessons may be omitted. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
While they may abridge the mental efficiency of the patient comparatively little or not at all, they may exert this effect, and often do, in the highest degree, on his offspring. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862] Reference
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